Several blogs are reporting on the highlights from Sam Ramji’s keynote at OSCON this morning.
Sam announced several items of significance that will dramatically advance the work that Microsoft is already doing with the Open Source developer community.
This is one of those posts where I’m probably better off quoting several others rather than sharing my own commentary.
First of all, from Sam’s blog ;
PHP on IIS + SQL : Microsoft is contributing a patch to ADOdb, a popular data access layer for PHP used by many applications. The patch enables support for SQL Server through the new “native driver for PHP” built by the SQL Server team. ADOdb is licensed under the LGPL and BSD. This is our first code contribution to PHP community projects but will not be the last.
and;
Open Specification Promise : Microsoft is putting a wide range of protocols that were formerly in the Communications Protocol Program under the Open Specification Promise (...
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Martyr4BK writes “Businessweek has a slew of special reports today on open source software discussing the benefits for buyers who are cost conscious and open source being the silver lining for the economic slump. They even have a slideshow of “OSS alternatives” like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox,Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk. These are all good examples (we use a bunch of them already), what other open source software can I use to drop ... more
Martyn, from Severn Delta Ltd , emailed me saying he had an Open Source story to tell. I’ve had this in my inbox for a while now, but have finally got round to publishing it.
Alan,
I own 50% of a manufacturing company in Bridgwater. When we bought the company out of receivership in ‘03 we had no systems at all. Our former parent company was running a character based ERP system called MAX on Unix and a Windows file serving network.
So day 1 (ish!) we set up two RH servers... more
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Излезе нова версия на аналога на Outlook и Outlook Express за графичната среда Gnome. Промените можете да прочетете тук . Лиценз: Безплатен (Open Source). ... more
Sam Ramji, Microsofts open source point man, promotes the companys efforts in the areas of interoperability and open source software at the Apache Software Foundations ApacheCon conference. In a keynote at the event, Ramji discussed various Microsoft interoperability efforts involving partnerships with WSO2, HBase, AMQP and the companys Oslo modeling technology. - In a keynote at the ApacheCon conference of open source developers and users, Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy a... more
ClamWin me detect un troyano en el svchost.exe y me lo puso en cuarentena.
No funciona el copiar y pegar (adems de muchos otrso servicios) y no puedo recuperar el svchost.exe ni con la reparacin del mismo CD del sistema operativo.
Gracias por vuestra ayuda
Adjunto el log HijacThis 2.0.2
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 13:20:16, on 05/11/2008
Platform: Windows 2000 SP4 (WinNT 5.00.2195)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106)
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Via Jessamyn and a slew of emails this weekend from TTW Readers:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/OCLC_Policy_Change
I need to catch up on all of these posts. Jessamyn suggested this one as
http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/220/
So, OCLC decides to update its data licensing policy after 21 years because, quote : “The Guidelineshave also been frequently faulted for their ambiguity about WorldCat data sharing rights and conditions.”
Having had to deal wi... more
According to Wikipedia the term FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp. : “FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instil in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products.”
As Eric S. Raymond writes: “The idea, of course, was to persuade buyers to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors’ equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accom... more
The ODF Alliance published a report on 20th December last year that puzzled me a little. The document talked about the steps that governments globally are taking in the debate around XML based document formats, and specifically tried to outline a number of geographies where a governments had made a selection of one standard over another.
This is a debate that I have been intimately involved with over the last couple of years, and reading through the report it struck me that the data didn&#... more
The technology world is one of many buzzwords and phrases, one that you hear a lot at the moment is “Service Oriented Architecture” or “SOA” which sounds like a highly technical methodology for systems design, in reality SOA techniques can provide a very effective way of dealing with organizational complexity and divides as we work towards delivering cross departmental government services over the web.
During the final months of 1995 I found myself involved for the first time in an eG... more
I woke up this morning to find that for the second time in a month the URL for the blog was no longer directed to anything.
Last time I just recreated the addon domain that was configured for http://osrin.net , but it seems that was not enough. Today I’ve established a new account and set the domain the primary one for that account - we’ll see if that helps.
The backup I had was for the day I left for the US last week, I managed to recover the lost posts of mine from an RSS fee... more
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